Courtroom Exclusive: After NBA Fraudster Williams Got 10 Years Dentist Wahab Gets 3 Years With Prior Cited

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By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Video

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 20 – Former NBA players Anthony Allen, Sebastian Telfair, Terrance Williams and 15 others former players were named in an indictment unsealed on October 7, 2021 for defrauding the NBA health fund, in Telfair's case, for $350,000.

  Telfair nevertheless got a publicly funded lawyer. Inner City Press was there, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrates Court and live tweeted it here and below(street video here)

On November 13, 2023 the trial of William Bynum and Ronald Davis was winding down. Bynum was being cross examined about paying Terrence Williams $30,000. Asked if he'd stopped speaking with Terrence Williams, Bynum said only money, "I'm a positive person," still talking about basketball. Rule 29 motions were denied and one rebuttal witness' testimony trimmed but not precluded.

On November 15, the jury found both guilty "of a criminal scheme to defraud the NBA Players’ Health and Benefit Welfare Plan."

On December 19, 2023, the US Attorney's Office wrote in that dentist Aamir Wahab is not, in fact, eligible for the zero-point offender reduction they gave - but said they will honor it. They are asking for 33 months.

Inner City Press went to the December 20 sentencing. Judge Caproni noted Wahab's prior conviction, and that he didn't need to do this crime.

She told him she saw no basis to vary downward - and sentenced him to 36 months, with Southern California designation requested by his California based lawyer.

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